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My name is Marina Vidal
Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega, Chile’s first openly transgender actress and model) is a waitress with designs of being a singer. And with a voice...
Your lowness
What do you get when you combine an atrocious script with big-budget production and a bevy of top actors? Your Highness, one of the worst films I have had to sit through in a long time. To think that it featured Natalie Portman, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel ...
Activism with an authentic flavor
The Dairy Center for the Arts is doing something unique, so pay attention. The Americas Latino Eco-Festival Film Forum covers three continents (North and South America and Antarctica), provides a much-needed voice for the Latino community, discusses political and ...
Mean streets and dark nights
Film noir gained popularity in the early 1940s, just as America entered the war and the moviegoing public was looking for something darker to sink their teeth into. Lucky for them, Hollywood recently gained an influx of European émigrés fleeing the Nazi Party. They ...
‘Daughter of Dawn,’ lost and found
French critic cum filmmaker Jacques Rivette asserted that, “Every film is a documentary of its own making.” While this is true of all movies,...
Home viewing: ‘Pierrot le Fou’
It’s the story of boy meets girl, but it’s all mixed up. He’s Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a married man with kids. She is Marianne...
‘Demolition’ takes a sledgehammer to grief
Before you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed.
That line of thinking...
Something to see; something to read
Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? It’s only the second week of 2022, and we already have the first great movie and...
